Re: Model 1816 Conversions being used in the union
When David Burt was here in the States a few months ago, he was looking for an Enfield with CW provenance. I told him if he wanted a weapon with the greatest likelihood of Civil War usage, pick up a US 1816/22 converted to percussion or a Potsdam or a Belgian, but not an Enfield. Those smoothbores that survived the conflict were not widely used anywhere else, or sold back into the gun trade post-bellum like the more modern US model rifle-muskets and P53s.
Too many Khyber Pass Enfields showing up at gunshows with fresh looking "CS" inspection stamps. Get a big, heavy, unwieldy "musket of the old style." Nobody is knocking those off.
When David Burt was here in the States a few months ago, he was looking for an Enfield with CW provenance. I told him if he wanted a weapon with the greatest likelihood of Civil War usage, pick up a US 1816/22 converted to percussion or a Potsdam or a Belgian, but not an Enfield. Those smoothbores that survived the conflict were not widely used anywhere else, or sold back into the gun trade post-bellum like the more modern US model rifle-muskets and P53s.
Too many Khyber Pass Enfields showing up at gunshows with fresh looking "CS" inspection stamps. Get a big, heavy, unwieldy "musket of the old style." Nobody is knocking those off.
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